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Judi Dench and Michael Williams: With Great Pleasure
- By: Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas, Charlotte Mitchell, and others
- Narrated by: Judi Dench, Michael Williams
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Original Recording
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Two archive BBC Radio programmes in which Judi Dench and Michael Williams, accompanied by friends John Moffatt and Alec McCowen, read a cornucopia of poetry and prose....
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5 out of 5 stars
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thoroughly enjoyed it. judi dench andcast were fa
- By Amazon Customer on 14-05-2016
By: Sylvia Plath, and others
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Dancing by the Light of the Moon
- Over 250 Poems to Read, Relish and Recite
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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For every moment in your life there is a poem. In Dancing by the Light of the Moon, we have a remarkable collection of over 250 best-loved poems in the English-speaking world....
By: Gyles Brandreth
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Russian Poetry: Faithful Translations of Select Russian Poems
- Russian Literature in English, Book 1
- By: Christopher Cole
- Narrated by: Tyler McGuire
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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There are few better ways to discover the identity of a nation or people than by listening to their poetry. From historical events to moral values to the political landscape (and often visions of the actual landscape), poetry, at its best, reveals the soul of a people....
By: Christopher Cole
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The Classic Hundred Poems
- By: William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, W.B. Yeats, and others
- Narrated by: Alfred Corn, Rita Dove
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Adopting the methodology of the music charts, The Classic Hundred Poems presents the "top 100" poems of all time...
By: William Shakespeare, and others
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A Little History of Poetry
- By: John Carey
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. This little history is about some....
By: John Carey
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The Nation's Favourite Poems
- By: BBC Audiobooks
- Narrated by: John Nettles, Siobhan Redmond, Greg Wise, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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In a nationwide poll conducted by BBC Television's Bookworm to find the nation's favourite poem, Rudyard Kipling's "If" was voted number one....
By: BBC Audiobooks
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Judi Dench and Michael Williams: With Great Pleasure
- By: Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas, Charlotte Mitchell, and others
- Narrated by: Judi Dench, Michael Williams
- Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5
Two archive BBC Radio programmes in which Judi Dench and Michael Williams, accompanied by friends John Moffatt and Alec McCowen, read a cornucopia of poetry and prose....
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5 out of 5 stars
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thoroughly enjoyed it. judi dench andcast were fa
- By Amazon Customer on 14-05-2016
By: Sylvia Plath, and others
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Dancing by the Light of the Moon
- Over 250 Poems to Read, Relish and Recite
- By: Gyles Brandreth
- Narrated by: Gyles Brandreth
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
For every moment in your life there is a poem. In Dancing by the Light of the Moon, we have a remarkable collection of over 250 best-loved poems in the English-speaking world....
By: Gyles Brandreth
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Russian Poetry: Faithful Translations of Select Russian Poems
- Russian Literature in English, Book 1
- By: Christopher Cole
- Narrated by: Tyler McGuire
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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There are few better ways to discover the identity of a nation or people than by listening to their poetry. From historical events to moral values to the political landscape (and often visions of the actual landscape), poetry, at its best, reveals the soul of a people....
By: Christopher Cole
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The Classic Hundred Poems
- By: William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, W.B. Yeats, and others
- Narrated by: Alfred Corn, Rita Dove
- Length: 6 hrs and 1 min
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 7
Adopting the methodology of the music charts, The Classic Hundred Poems presents the "top 100" poems of all time...
By: William Shakespeare, and others
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A Little History of Poetry
- By: John Carey
- Narrated by: Ralph Lister
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. This little history is about some....
By: John Carey
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The Nation's Favourite Poems
- By: BBC Audiobooks
- Narrated by: John Nettles, Siobhan Redmond, Greg Wise, and others
- Length: 2 hrs and 1 min
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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In a nationwide poll conducted by BBC Television's Bookworm to find the nation's favourite poem, Rudyard Kipling's "If" was voted number one....
By: BBC Audiobooks
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War Poetry
- By: Wilfred Owen, Sigfried Sassoon, Rudyard Kipling
- Narrated by: Phillip J. Mather
- Length: 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Seventeen iconic poems from World War One bring the horrors of the Great War vividly to life through the eyes of those living them....
By: Wilfred Owen, and others
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The Ultimate Poetry Collection
- Poetry of War, Romantic Poetry, Victorian Poetry
- By: Thomas Hardy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, and others
- Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Gwen Watford, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 1
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A collection of the greatest poetry from the Romantic period, the battlefield and the Victorian era, read by some of the 20th century’s most renowned actors....
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2 out of 5 stars
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No titles, no list
- By Anonymous User on 16-12-2022
By: Thomas Hardy, and others
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She Walks in Beauty
- A Woman's Journey Through Poems
- By: Adrienne Rich, Pablo Neruda, Elizabeth Bishop, and others
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd, Campbell Scott, Jane Alexander, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience....
By: Adrienne Rich, and others
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Poems to Make You Cry
- By: Emily Dickinson, William Shakespeare, Christina Georgina Rossetti, and others
- Narrated by: Ghizela Rowe, Alex Jennings, Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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From misting of the eyes, through soft drizzles on cheek to cascades that would put Niagara falls to shame the event of tears comes in all shapes and sizes.
By: Emily Dickinson, and others
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James Joyce
- Revised Edition
- By: Richard Ellman
- Narrated by: John Keating
- Length: 37 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2
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Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material....
By: Richard Ellman
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The Prelude
- Growth of a Poet's Mind: An Autobiographical Poem
- By: William Wordsworth
- Narrated by: Nicholas Farrell
- Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Wordsworth's The Prelude is the consummation of his achievement as the great founder of English romanticism....
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sublime
- By Kindle Customer on 01-11-2023
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100 Greatest Poems: Paul Verlaine, Victor Hugo, Baudelaire
- By: Paul Verlaine, Victor Hugo, Charles Baudelaire
- Narrated by: Katie Haigh, Paul Edwards
- Length: 3 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The greatest poems from the greatest masters of French literature have been put together in a brilliant English adaptation in the form of an audiobook...
By: Paul Verlaine, and others
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Seven Ages
- An Anthology of Poetry with Music (Unabridged Selections)
- By: William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Ted Hughes
- Narrated by: Ralph Fiennes, Dame Judi Dench
- Length: 2 hrs and 33 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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This highly entertaining anthology of verse is the comic, tragic, tender, and telling story of life's seven ages, from childhood to old age. Within the framework of Shakespeare's speech...
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4 out of 5 stars
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Where are the female poets?
- By Eleni Rivers on 16-06-2019
By: William Shakespeare, and others
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The Waste Land & Four Quartets
- By: T. S. Eliot
- Narrated by: Paul Scofield
- Length: 1 hr and 34 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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These are masterly readings, by renowned thespian Paul Schofield, of two substantial works of poetry by T.S. Eliot....
By: T. S. Eliot
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100 Best-Loved Poems
- By: Philip Smith
- Narrated by: Samuel Casey
- Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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"100 Best-Loved Poems" is a cherished anthology that brings together some of the most timeless and evocative works of poetry in the English language.
By: Philip Smith
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Bedtime Stories for Stressed Out Adults
- DESIGNED TO CALM YOUR MIND FOR A GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEP
- By: Various, Lucy Mangan
- Narrated by: Joan Walker, Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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Tales to soothe tired souls. A nighttime companion for frazzled adults, including calming stories and poems for a good night's sleep....
By: Various, and others
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Poetry in Person
- Twenty-five Years of Conversation with America's Poets
- By: Lucille Clifton, Alexander Neubauer - editor, Eamon Grennan, and others
- Narrated by: Alexander Neubauer
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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This first audio edition of Poetry in Person: 25 Years of Conversation with America’s Poets invites listeners into an intimate classroom with eight acclaimed poets....
By: Lucille Clifton, and others